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To: sylvester80 who wrote (196240)	8/8/2006 6:25:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The violence began Wednesday when Hezbollah forces crossed into Israel, killing three soldiers and abducting two others. cnn.com Message 22699977 Also following your link to look for its sources - Its first link is to "What Really happened". I was unaware that that was a major news organization. The 2nd link it to Voltairenet.org. Can't really comment on them, never heard about them. The third link is to Forbes, relaying an AP report, but the AP story doesn't give the source of the information. Its an initial unconfirmed report and the report of the specifics may very well be from Hezbollah. The fourth link does directly say ""The Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah movement announced...". The 5th link is about the National Council of Arab Americans voicing suspicion about Israel's report on the incident. Not exactly a surprise, and not an example of a major news organization reporting Israel's claim as false. So only one of the 5 stories combines being from legitimate major news wires with direct support of the claim that the soldiers where in Lebanon. And that support is very weak. Its a quick unconfirmed report before international news organizations could dig in to the story themselves. Most likely its based on either rumor Hezbollah's statement. Neither of which would be automatically false but neither of which can be relied on.